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and he s doing it in honour of tom smith, the former scotland rugby captain, who died from the disease back in april, aged just 50. martin geissler went to meet him. andy petersen has lost family and friends to bowel cancer. so he decided to get on his bike to raise awareness of the condition and help to fight it. the symptoms, broadly, are blood in your stool, is a big one, abdominal pains, sudden loss of weight, change in bowel habits, all of which, actually, i m about to experience in the next seven days. but not because of bowel cancer, but because i am spending 16 hours a day on a bike. this is no ordinary challenge. over the next week, with no support team and just the bare essentials strapped to his bike, andy will cycle literally the length and breadth of britain. starting at lizard point, the southernmost tip of the mainland, he will go to the easternmost lowestoft in east anglia. from there, it is an enormous schlep up to dunnet head, the most northerly tip of mai

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